#truth

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but usually manages to pick himself up, walk over or around it, and carry on. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#truth #ignorance

Nothing is real. ↗

— John Lennon

#reality #truth #real

The tongue can conceal the truth, but the eyes never! You're asked an unexpected question, you don't even flinch, it takes just a second to get yourself under control, you know just what you have to say to hide the truth, and you speak very convincingly, and nothing in your face twitches to give you away. But the truth, alas, has been disturbed by the question, and it rises up from the depths of your soul to flicker in your eyes and all is lost. ↗

— Mikhail Bulgakov

#unexpected

It is difficult to see ourselves as we are. Sometimes we are fortunate enough to have good friends, lovers or others who will do us the good service of telling us the truth about ourselves. When we don't, we can so easily delude ourselves, lose a sense of truth about ourselves, and our conscience loses power and purpose. Mostly, we tell ourselves what we would like to hear. We lose our way. ↗

— Jon Katz

#truth #conscience

The perfect killer has no conscience. ↗

— Brent Weeks

#conscience

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#alien #american #american people #competitive #entrust

When Art becomes a Science it is no longer an Art. ↗

— Kevin James Breaux

#truth #writing #art

There are so many things I want to tell her, so many things she doesn't know; like how I remember when she first came home from the hospital, a big pink blob with a perma-smile, and she used to fall asleep while grabbing on to my pinter finger; how I sued to give her piggyback rides up and down the beach on Cape Cod, and she would tub on my ponytail to direct me one way or the other; how soft and furry her head was when she was first born; that the first time you kiss someone you'll be nervous, and it will be weird, and it won't be as good as you want it to be, and that's okay; how you should only fall in love with people who will fall in love back... I feel an ache in my throat, but i manage to smile. Two conflicting desires go through me at the same time, each as sharp as a razor blade: I want to see you grow up and Don't ever change. ↗

— Lauren Oliver

#change

Nature alone can lead to the understanding of art, just as art brings us back to nature with greater awarness. It is the source of all beauty, since it is the source of all life. ↗

— Eugène Carrière

#beauty #education #inspirational #life #truth

There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#simplicity #truth #simplicity